Pierre Plantard
1920 to 2000
4 documented presences
2 places
Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Pierre Plantard across 2 places, from 1920 to 2000. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair (born Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard, 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000) was a French technical artist, best known for being the principal fabricator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a male-line Merovingian descendaWikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Pierre Plantard was documented, and when
1920year
Parisattested
“Pierre Plantard was born in 1920 in Paris, the son of a butler and a concierge (described as a cook for wealthy families in police reports of the 1940s).”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1958year
Parisattested
“By 1958, Plantard was back living in Paris where he was actively supporting General de Gaulle during the Algerian Crisis, establishing his own version of a Committee of Public Safety (calling it the 'Central Committee') based in Paris, u…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1958year
Algeriaattested
“By 1958, Plantard was back living in Paris where he was actively supporting General de Gaulle during the Algerian Crisis, establishing his own version of a Committee of Public Safety (calling it the 'Central Committee') based in Paris, u…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
3 February 2000exact date
Parisattested
“Nothing more was heard of Plantard until he died in Paris on 3 February 2000.”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
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Places Pierre Plantard is documented in
Other places tied to Pierre Plantard in the record
In each of these, a source puts Pierre Plantard and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Pierre Plantard was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
21 April 1941exact date
Parismentioned
“On 21 April 1941, Plantard wrote to the Paris Police Prefecture that his group the French National Renewal was to take possession of the unoccupied premises located at 22 place Malesherbes, 1st floor "which are currently let to an Englis…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
21 April 1941exact date
Paris Police Prefecturementioned
“On 21 April 1941, Plantard wrote to the Paris Police Prefecture that his group the French National Renewal was to take possession of the unoccupied premises located at 22 place Malesherbes, 1st floor "which are currently let to an Englis…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
September 1942month
Fresnes Prisonmentioned
“The Alpha Galates published a periodical called Vaincre - Pour une jeune chevalerie ("Conquer - for a young knighthood"), that lasted for six issues between September 1942 and February 1943, containing an anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic ag…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1946 to 1961period
Normandymentioned
“In 1961, author Gérard de Sède had an article published in Noir et blanc about the Château de Gisors in Normandy, linked to the claims of Roger Lhomoy who, since 1946, alleged it contained the treasure of the Knights Templar.”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
8 July 1951exact date
Ambillymentioned
“On July 8, 1951, he was initiated into Freemasonry in the Grand Orient de France by the lodge L’Avenir du Chablais in Ambilly.”
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October 1955month
Francementioned
“A book published in 1983 by Louis Vazart reproduced two fake "notarised documents" allegedly dating from October 1955 naming Captain Ronald Stansmore Nutting (altered from Captain Ronald Stansmore), Major Hugh Murchison Clowes and the Ri…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
November 1955month
Londonmentioned
“In 1989, when Plantard revised his claims about the Priory of Sion, it was stated in a 1989 issue of Vaincre: "The parchments of Blanche of Castile were in Etienne Plantard's safe-deposit box in London since November 1955 and they did no…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
25 June 1956exact date
Annemassementioned
“On 25 June 1956, Pierre Plantard and André Bonhomme legally registered in the town of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois a new association called the Priory of Sion, based in Annemasse close to the French border near Geneva.”
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25 June 1956exact date
Genevamentioned
“On 25 June 1956, Pierre Plantard and André Bonhomme legally registered in the town of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois a new association called the Priory of Sion, based in Annemasse close to the French border near Geneva.”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1964year
Bibliothèque nationale de Francementioned
“The book adapted Corbu's story to fit-in with Plantard's claims about the survival of the line of Merovingian king Dagobert II, and Plantard began claiming to be descended from Dagobert II since 1964 when he began depositing false docume…”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1972year
Montaubanmentioned
“In 1972, he married Anne-Marie Cavaille who originated from Montauban, with Philippe de Chérisey acting as best man.”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1978year
Rennes-le-Châteaumentioned
“By 1978, Plantard began claiming that his grandfather had met Bérenger Saunière in Rennes-le-Château, and that the real source of Saunière's wealth was the Abbé Henri Boudet, parish priest of the nearby village of Rennes-les-Bains.”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1978year
Rennesmentioned
“By 1978, Plantard began claiming that his grandfather had met Bérenger Saunière in Rennes-le-Château, and that the real source of Saunière's wealth was the Abbé Henri Boudet, parish priest of the nearby village of Rennes-les-Bains.”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
1990year
Londonmentioned
“Another "notarised document" that was later reproduced in Vaincre Number 1 (1990), gave the caption "after a photograph taken by Etienne Plantard in London in 1958", naming only Captain R.S.”
source: Wikipedia: Pierre Plantard
Documented at the same place, the same year
Jean-Pierre RampalParis · 2000Jean-Luc GodardParis · 1958Jacques BrelParis · 1958Jean ArpParis · 1958Paul MauriatParis · 1958Yaacov AgamParis · 1958Robert FrankParis · 1958James JoyceParis · 1920Joan MiróParis · 1920Tristan TzaraParis · 1920Aleister CrowleyParis · 1920Ezra PoundParis · 1920
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